Despite it’s promising appearance, it lacks either long enough tines for holding solids or a deep enough scoop for retaining liquids. In fact, I think Darwin first developed the idea of natural selection after a particularly bad experience involving a spork.

Several weeks back, Melissa from http://play101.wordpress.com/ awarded me the Stylish Blogger Award. Basically, this is an unofficial honor that is passed around the blogging community from one blogger to another. I had planned on mentioning this at the time, but my surgery was scheduled very quickly and the recovery took longer than expected.

Having seen this award talked about in a few different places, there are a four rules for those receiving the Stylish Blogger: (1)Credit the person who awarded it to you, (2)List a seven things about yourself, (3)Pass the award on to other deserving souls, (4)tell the new recipients about it.

(1) Thanks Melissa!

(2) A few things about me:

I am a germaphobe. I even wipe down my credit card or ID after using them.

I am a Boston Red Sox fan (and was one looooong before they actually started winning).

I still read the newspaper every day. I don’t care that the news isn’t up-to-the-minute.

I always vote. National, state, or local elections – it doesn’t matter.

I enjoy playing board games with my wife, although I never actually win. Ever.

Flufflepot – This blog tells stories using digital cartoons. I really like the style and am amazed by the animated picture at the top of the page. Very neat.

A Lego a Day – Something different. This blog has been freshly pressed by wordpress twice in the past few months. Everyday brings a new photo of lego people doing interesting things. You really have to see it to understand.

Every year millions of people across the country dread the confusing paperwork, looming deadlines, and possible financial stress of tax season. For our family there is one silver lining to the whole process.

The IRS makes us laugh.

For some unknown reason, someone at the IRS made a mistake typing the name of my wife a few years ago. I can understand how one mistake was made. No biggie. Mistakes happen all the time. However, what I cannot understand is how (despite our repeated attempts to correct the error) the misspelling has continued to follow her for seven consecutive years.

When I said above that the IRS makes us laugh, I didn’t mean that we are laughing at the bureaucratic resistance to corrections. No. We laugh because of the ridiculous name they have given my wife.

Ebola.

Seriously. I’m not making this up.

EBOLA.

The name of the most widely known viral hemorrhagic fever on the planet. We try each year to correct the problem, but the Internal Revenue Service stubbornly insists that my wife’s name is Ebola. Not exactly a shining endorsement of competency for the agency that handles trillions of dollars every year.

I decided to try the WordPress “schedule” option for this post. If the scheduling works as advertised, I will be in the middle of surgery when these words are posted. If the surgeon works as advertised, I will be sleepily recovering in a hospital bed by this afternoon and home again by tomorrow.

Grimaud

I like to draw. Three years ago, I started drawing on little yellow sticky notes. These are the little pictures I like to draw. If you want to contact me you can leave a comment or send an email to: inkjotcomics@gmail.com